<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 12:13 PM James Abernathy <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">So I'm really bored today and recently discovered that the Raspbian Imager can create an SD card with Ubuntu 20.04 either 32 or 64 bits.<div><br></div><div>Turns out it's the server version, no desktop environment.</div><div><br></div><div>I thought why not try to install mythfrontend on it. I first tried mythtv-light and it would not install due to some dependencies. So then I tried:</div><div>sudo apt install mythtv-mythfrontend; which did install. I rebooted and noticed that it had installed a limited ubuntu desktop with just a few apps including mythfrontend.</div><div><br></div><div>So I ran it and it worked. I picked the same audio I'd pick for the raspbian version and for Video, I didn't see MMAL, so I picked V4L2 and set up to do standard, 4 CPUs and opengl.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm surprised that it worked. The video isn't bad particularly since I'm running mythfrontend on top of a desktop environment. </div><div><br></div><div>I tried setting the default boot to multi-user and rebooting without a desktop but I couldn't get mythfrontend to run using:</div><div><br></div><div>QT_QPA_EGLFS_ALWAYS_SET_MODE="1" QT_QPA_PLATFORM=eglfs mythfrontend</div><div><br></div><div>It couldn't find a drm device or something.</div><div><br></div><div>Also it ran the mythfrontend version from March while the x86_64 version is up to an August version.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway it's interesting what I've stumbled on. </div><div><br></div><div>Jim A<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default">If you have the 4GB Pi, I would recommend loading Android on it - Lineage OS has a port for it on XDA. That gives you a lot more options for other players.</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default">Note: I have not tried this yet, but plan to as soon as I get my other Android TV device working.<br></div></div></div>